INDEX TO THE LAWS,

Chap.

Sec.

land canal, it is required that estimates

and reports submitted to the Governor

and Council, after an actual survey, by

enginees appointed &c., it shall be ascer-

tained wheather and at what expense said

canal can be constructed by the rallies

of the Monocy and Patapsco, or from the

mouth of Seneca river, exclusively within

this State, be practicable,

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INTERNAL IMPROVE-

MENT, If practicable, said company shall by

obligation, under seal &c. agree to locate

and construct said canal upon the most

northern sracticable route,

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Said subscription thereupon to be made,

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Appointment of engineers to make

said survey and estimate prescribed,

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Governor and Council required within

sixty days after said report and esti-

mates be filed, to decide upon the prac-

ticability of the route,

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If they fail in that time so to do, the

Maryland canal co. authorised to decide,

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The subscription neither to the Balti-

more and Ohio rail road company, nor

to the Chesapeake and Ohio canal com-

pany, shall be made until the Maryland

land canal company shall certify to the

Treasurer of the W. S. that subscriptions

sufficient have been received to the capital

stock of said company, to insure the com-

pletion of said canal by the most north-

ern practicable route,

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In case sufficient shall not be subscrib-

ed to authorise the Eastern Shore rail

road to organise, &c, the faith of the

State is hereby pledged to hold sacred and

appropriate to internal improvements

upon the Eastern Shore, the sum of one

million of dollars, subject to the disposi-

tion of any future Legislature, for that

purpose,

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